Comments on: Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver

By: Rina

Rina — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:43:51 +0000

@Rachel well the ending isn’t bad or so nice though, it clearly states that she saves juliet from suiciding and lauren oliver leaves it unclear whether she died or not. what the author tries to says to the readers is it’s our choice if we want samantha died or survived in the end. if you think of it, if you were samantha what would you do in your last day? samantha chooses to right her wrongdoings on her last days, and she didn’t wait the accident to happen again in the end cause whatever happens, saving the girl you’ve done bad things is worth than her own death.

By: Emily

Emily — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:34:57 +0000

This was for sure on of my fav books i have ever read!:) It really was good! It is a book I can relate to. There is girls in my class that thinks there the hot “shit” and do whatever the heck they want not caring what people think. I like this book because it show how a bitch can actually be a good person. I loved the relationship with her and Kent! It was secretive and it was pretty funny when Rob was rejected. I felt bad for Kent because he really liked her, and when he saw her die. I wonder what he would do after that. Go talk to her grave everyday? They need to make this a movie because it seriously was the best book I have ever read, and it really made feel mixed emotions! I NEVER cry when I read books, and this one made me cry finding out she died in the end…:( I wish she lived so she could do what is right ,and be happy with Kent…. If they made this a movie, I would not only buy it, but have all of my friends watch it too.. My friend wants the book now because I told her it was good!!

By: HNJ

HNJ — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:40:43 +0000

SPOILERS

I am pretty sure Sam dies at the end. The last paragraph that starts with “The moment of death…” and describes the warmth and light and moving forward, feeling like the embodiement of singing;I think she is basically telling the reader what it felt like when she died.
The voices calling her were Kent and her friends trying to get her to come back, but unfortunately, Sam knew what she had to do and couldn’t be stopped. They continued calling her after the accident, but that was them screaming when they saw what happened to her.
I am glad she was able to express her love for her parents, Izzy, and Kent and save Juliet before she did, though. Bittersweet ending.

By: (puts name)

(puts name) — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:25:07 +0000

this book stunk. i had no idea what happened. 1 star for trying.

By: Nini

Nini — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:42:49 +0000

(SPOILERS)
Anyway, after reading all the comments I started thinking I haven’t understood the end correctly ’cause I always though she died in the end. So I read it again and I notice something: right before the epilogue, when Sam says she sees Juliet’s face above her, she also says that she feels a hand in her face which is cool and dry. Ok, I easily accept that it could be cool, but dry? If it’s raining and Juliet is drenched how the hell is her hand dry? It made me think that somehow it could be happening latter than the moment when Sam saved her, maybe in the hospital.
I still think she ended up dying (specially because of the epilogue) once that this really causes impact and makes you thing about life, your actions and if you waste your time and everything Sam talks about, but I can’t avoid thinking, maybe there some hope?

By: Nini

Nini — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 18:24:36 +0000

I finished this book a few days ago and I have to agree with everyone, it’s trully a great book, absorving and with really solid caracthers. The story is awsome and I couldn’t stop reading it. I really loved it. Actually, I’am already thinking about rereading it.

By: Lilli

Lilli — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 02:22:08 +0000

i am almost completely positive she dies in the end. i felt sort of stupid not understanding the ending – i thought it was just me being an airhead, but it’s good to know i’m not the only one who’s debating about this. me and my sister (who is 4 years older than me) both read this book in a total of 2 days each. we both loved it and are both doing our summer reading reports on it. (she’s going into senior year, me 8th grade). i think she dies because although her love with Kent sadly (and abruptly) ends, i feel that the whole reason she goes into this “limbo” state for the seven days is to teach her a lesson, and to make her realize that it was their fault (her, lindsay, elody, and ally) that juliet died in the beginning, because she was going to kill herself anyways, but going to that party really finished off the deal – being pushed around and called names and soaked with alcohol from people pouring drinks on her. so, to get her out of that limbo state she had to save juliet’s life in order to save herself (in a way) from the bad things she’d done to juliet. i just don’t understand why this book (and the events that happened in it) aren’t based around Lindsay. she was best friends with juliet until that incident on that girl scout trip in 5th grade (i think?). it was probably because sam happened to be in the front seat of the car, resulting in her being killed as well as obviously, juliet. that’s also why on one of the days elody died instead, because since sam didn’t go to the party at kent’s. these are just my thoughts, i hope they shed a bit of light on this situation for you! thanks! ~Lilli

By: DWWluverr

DWWluverr — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 20:51:05 +0000

At least I’m not alone on the whole ending being VERY confusing I red the ending atleast 5 times and still don’t get itt… :/ I shure as he’ll didn’t want her to die, but I’m pretty shure she did :/ but oh well in my mind she was in a coma and the voices at the end were her friends calling her to wake up… She is still bff’s with Lindsay, ally, and elbony (dont think I spelt her name right:$ awks) then she hooked up with Kent and everything wasss fine expect the fact that she had been in a coma for a week…

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 01:45:30 +0000

i loved the book and she did die in the end and she was reliving the day to save Juliet’s life because in the beginning when she died it was juliet that caused them to crash so instead of having the innocent girl die because they made her life horrible she wanted to save Juliets life

By: Liv

Liv — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:52:48 +0000

So i loved the book but I am a little bit confused about the ending. I mean its not so much a did she die or not with me, i just wish that there was a little bit more of an explanation of what exactly happened. anyway loooooovvveed the book and cant wait to read delierium